• ...oblivion is inevitable and someday there will be no one left to remember anything, let alone you or me. Being remembered forever is not a good goal because it is not an achievable goal.
• Which day was it when I became perpetually satisfied and always happy? Yeah, it was none of the days. Here’s the thing about success, if you're smart enough and you're dedicated enough and lucky enough and sacrifice enough, you too will get to find out that none of it exists.
• It’s made up. It’s just it’s not a real thing. You get successes, but you don’t get success. The whole of everything of it does not lie on that arbitrary yet remarkable thing that you did that everyone says, “Yes, that. That counts.”
• I've had those things, and they do not bring long term satisfaction. The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things. And often times the recognition isn’t even a necessary part of the process.
• ...instead of thinking about what you will and won’t accomplish in your life, think about the problems that you have helped solve and you will help solve and the things that you're gonna help make and that you've already helped make.
• I don’t think I am alone in feeling like the things that we help make and the problems we help solve, those are the things that really matter the things that actually affect the world and that actually make us happy.
• And maybe every person is unremarkable in that we all make things every day. We make happiness and we make families and we make sandwiches and most fantastically of all we make ourselves.

- Hank Green